Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

The Angel Capital Association (ACA) Summit represents a beacon for black investors, founders, and high-growth startups. The summit offers an unparalleled opportunity for learning, networking, and investment discovery, specifically tailored to empower the black entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

In terms of who is here and what does get funded, the average entrepreneur spends way too much time doing after investors that have a shingle on their door that says angel investor or VC. Much of the equity investment that goes on happens through people you’d never think of. Do you have a Bose radio at home?

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This is the time of year when we reach out to our angel community seeking nominations for both the Angel Capital Association’s FY 2025 Board of Directors and committee volunteers to help ACA continue to grow and support our work on angel investing.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff speaks with Marsha Dawood, chair of the Angel Capital Association Board of Directors, regarding the advantages of angel funding to finance and launch a business. Marsha, we believe at the Business Beat that angel funding is the most important type of funding for the earliest stages.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Boston-Area Angels Hambleton Lord and Christopher Mirabile Receive Hans Severiens Award for Individual Impact in Advancing the Field of Angel Investing. Ham and Christopher met in the busy Boston angel investing community where they both started and operated angel networks.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2023

So, are SAFEs truly dominating early-stage investing? But what about angels? To answer this question, let’s first identify the stage at which angels most commonly invest. Whomever is doing the bulk of those pre-seed deals examined by CARTA, it is probably not America’s leading professional angel groups.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

Diversity in general: Investors of Color Network , Left Tackle Capital , National Association of Investment Companies , NewtoVC , Newton Venture Program , VC Include , Techfundingequity , Vencapital , Diversity.vc (UK focus). Spearhead – $1m to back your angel investing. Investment Banking Institute.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 12, 2023

We all know that the success in angel investing involves many factors. Examples of these factors include valuations, due diligence, building a portfolio of companies, business sectors, angel engagement and others. One of the items the Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN) reviewed was angel engagement with start-up companies.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 10, 2023

Hans Severiens winners Tony Shipley, left, of Queen City Angels and Dan Rosen , right, of the Aliance of Angels. The Hans Severiens Award recognizes personal impact on the advancement of angel investing globally and highlights the special relationship that angels and entrepreneurs build to innovate, create jobs, and drive the economy.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

On February 28 , in Florence, CO, Elaine Bolle , Kevin Kudra , and Katelynne Staehnke were in attendance at the Fremont County Angel Investing Workshop, sponsored the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade ( CO OEDIT ). At this event, Elaine Bolle delivered the Fundamentals of Angel Investing course.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 17, 2024

The landscape of early-stage startup investment has undergone significant transformation in recent years. Venture Capital (VC) funding has declined across the board due to macroeconomic factors, with 2023 marking the lowest level of venture investment activity since 2019. This is an issue that warrants further discussion.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 21, 2020

I am very pleased to have the opportunity to represent the Angel Capital Association and the voice of all early stage investors as part of the vital work of the Investor Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Board of Directors or Board of Advisors of numerous start-up companies and non-profits.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Angel Capital Association is moving into a confident, secure future, because of the successes we’ve had and the way we’ve navigated the last two years. ACA’s angel groups made more investments in more companies despite the pandemic –continuing to risk personal capital to jumpstart businesses and ignite economies.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 6, 2012

Some businesses just can’t fit within the angel capital or friends and family model for raising funds. Sooner or later these businesses will have to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of an investment. Email readers, continue here.]

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

This week, Onboard Dynamics was awarded the prestigious Luis Villalobos Award for Technology, which recognizes the most ingenious and innovative idea recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association (ACA.) In addition to investments from ACA groups like Golden Seeds, how has the company attracted funding?

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Rob’s personal philosophy and growth strategy involves leveraging the expertise, relationships, and capital of angels around the world. Fast forward several years, and Rob leveraged his success with Evity to start Savara, using his own money and $1M from 10 angels. Several angel investors, including an M.D.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Steve Baggott is a member and Board Director of Queen City Angels (QCA) in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is also deeply involved with the Angel Capital Association, where he has served on the Marketing & Membership and Education Committees. It was in this capacity that Steve first got exposed to angel investing.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2019

Some businesses just can’t fit within the angel capital or friends and family model for raising funds. Sooner or later you may need to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of an investment. What VC’s can and cannot do.

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This is the time of year when ACA reaches out to our angel community seeking nominations for both the Angel Capital Association’s FY 2025 Board of Directors and committee volunteers to help ACA continue to grow and support our work on angel investing.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

Incredible Organizational Change, Growth and Advocacy: a Look at the ACA Success and Goals For 2024 Despite the volatility brought about by the pandemic, economic uncertainty, market fluctuation, bank failures and a myriad of other difficulties, the ACA has powered through to continue to be the voice for the art and science of angel investing.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 26, 2020

High-growth startups have two basic sources of investment capital — angel investors (individuals, groups, or funds) and institutional investors like i2E. Angels invest their own money and are in the business of high risk/high return. They tend to invest very early in a startup’s life, even pre-revenue.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

The ACA and angel investing community are thrilled to welcome Dr. Charu Ramanathan as a keynote speaker to the Summit of Angel Investing in Columbus, OH. Dr. Ramanathan is the Founding Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Black Star Fund , an early-stage venture capital fund.

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 6, 2023

For Immediate Release 2023 Angel Funders Report Released Overland Park, KS (December 6, 2023) – The Angel Capital Association (ACA) has released the Angel Funders Report for 2023. The AFR continues to be the definitive source of angel investing in North America.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 28, 2023

In terms of profit generation, 56% of profits in the top 100 companies today were from companies founded after the dawn of the era of venture capital and angel investing in the 1970s, and losing companies from any one decade would have wiped out between 6% and 34% of profit in the economy.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

By Tony Shipley, Seed the Future Campaign Chair, and Katelynne Staehnke, Director of Development, on behalf of the Angel Investor Foundation. We sincerely appreciate the many contributions our Angel Capital Association (ACA) members, Angel Groups and other donors have made and continue to make to the Seed the Future (STF) Campaign.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

In doing this work, there has been a significant amount of investment of both funds and time in moving entrepreneurship activities forward. We knew that when her fellowship ended, we needed to bring someone on board who was solely focused on this work. Not all service providers will be on board with the initiatives.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director The programming team for ACA 2021 - The Summit of Angel Investing is full of experienced, respected angel investors and ecosystem providers, and they are hard at work creating a virtual experience that will change the way you think about angel investing.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

How the Accredited Investor Definition Unfairly Limits Investment Access for the Non-wealthy and the Need for Reform * WATCH THE HEARING NOW, BEGINNING AT MIN 10 * Early this morning, the Subcommittee on Capital Markets held a hearing entitled “Sophistication or Discrimination?

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Editor’s Note – This story originally appeared in the Idaho Business Review by Sharon Fisher and reposted with permission by the Angel Capital Association. To many Idaho companies, Kevin Learned isn’t just an icon, he’s ang angel. We raised angel capital,” Learned said. “I I didn’t know the word for it.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 27, 2024

Exit and IPO activity have dropped precipitously, and funding has declined across the board. Those micro VC funds need to be invested or they will have to return the capital, hence valuations are bid up. Concern over these relatively high valuations is one of the reasons for less investment in the current downcycle.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

The sharp reversal in 2022 from bubble to sober economics is well illustrated by Pitchbook’s index(1) of how founder or investor friendly the investing climate is. By mid-2022 the index had quickly reversed from a founder to investor friendly investing climate. In another reversal from 2021, capital demand was 1.5x

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 30, 2023

by Joe Wallin , leader of the Angel Capital Association Legal Advisory Council and Pricipal at the law firm of Carney Badley Spellman, P.S. Big Picture The CTA is intended to assist law enforcement in combatting money laundering, tax fraud, financing of terrorism, and other illicit activity through anonymous shell and front companies.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Neil's philosophy is simple: it's not just about providing guidance; it's about investing in success. Bagchi Law is committed to providing legal counsel while actively investing in the success and growth of our local entrepreneurs, contributing to the region's dynamic landscape," said Neil.

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Berkonomics

MAY 22, 2014

Bill Payne has been actively involved in angel investing since 1980, funding over 50 companies and mentoring over 100 more. He is the recipient of the coveted “Hans Severiens Award form the Angel Capital Association, its highest honor. . I don’t fund new companies that have prepared PPMs for investment.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2024

This historical or look back perspective is based on a survey conducted by the Angel Capital Association in Q1 and Q2 of 2021 compared to the same survey conduct two years later in 2023. Investments in new deals by members was up 46% in the 2021 survey versus only up 25% in the 2023 survey compared to the previous year.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

We all know that investing in early-stage companies is a very risky proposition, and the majority of investments will either fail completely or fail to return the capital invested. Not withstanding the high overall failure rate, a sufficiently diversified portfolio of early-stage investments can yield attractive returns.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Back to top The History of the ACA's Public Policy Efforts The Angel Capital Association was a nascent organization in 2009-2010 when Congress developed the bipartisan Dodd-Frank Act in response to the fallout of the great recession.

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